Posted insocial bookmarking
Leaving del.icio.us
I didn't check out too many other social bookmarking tools once I started with del.icio.us, which was practically the only game in town at the time. I tried Furl for…
Posted inblogging
Fill out Michael’s survey!!!
Michael Stephens' blogger survey is up and running. Here's what it's all about: The purpose of this research study is to help better understand the motivations of librarians who write…
Any Vermont Bloggers?
I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn't, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger…
New communities, physical and virtual
For background, this post was inspired by Laura's (of lis.dom) excellent post on the uses of the biblioblogosphere, which was in response to posts by Mark Linder, Angel, and Joy…
Posted inblogging
Thanks a lot Wilma
So I left Florida to get away from the hurricanes... ... but Hurricane Wilma was nice enough to make a little visit to Vermont. We got about 16 inches of…
Posted inGeneral social bookmarking
Social Bookmarking survey
This morning, I had an email from Djoeke van de Klomp, the Community Manager of blinklist.com (which I hadn't used prior to this, but it looks pretty cool!). She is…
How to slack in peace
For those of you in the Northeast who have been dealing with almost 2 weeks of continuous rain, here's something that definitely brightened my day and made me laugh my…
Posted inMPOW reference screencasting tech trends Wikis
Public speaking and wiki-evangelizing
I am not one of those people -- like Steven Cohen or Jessamyn -- who is very comfortable giving talks. No matter how well I know the material, I still…
Posted inblogging screencasting
Screencasting social software
Brian Lamb, one of my favorite Ed-Tech people and wiki-evangelists, has created a terrific screencast about blogs and their use in education (note: it's a big file and you must…
When is a wiki not a wiki?
Or does using a specific type of software necessarily define the product? I was as excited as everyone else when I heard that the WorldCat wiki was live in Open…
Posted inlibrarianship Wikis
New-ish wiki on the block!
Well, it's new to me at least! It's always exciting for me to see librarians using wikis to share information. The fabulous folks at Librarians with class pointed out the…
Posted inlibrarianship libraries Wikis
Library Success Wiki in SLJ!
Wow, this is some month for me! Library Journal and School Library Journal! This month, the Library Success Wiki is featuerd as SLJ's Website of the Month. It's a terrific,…
Posted inblogging job search librarianship
Why blog?
I used to blog a lot more than I do now. I was unemployed and had a lot of free time. Now that I have a job and a house…
Posted inblogging librarianship
Bloggers in LJ
I was excited to see that the Bloggers Roundtable I did with several other fabulous librarian bloggers finally made its way into Library Journal. It's a great article, but part…
Posted inblogging librarianship libraries library school
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Results
I just finished writing up all of the results of the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. The results have been broken down into four parts. Since I posted them in the…
Posted inblogging librarianship libraries library school
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Why we blog
I received 116 responses to the open ended question "why do you blog?" Instead of presenting every answer to you, I went through and categorized them by the different goals…
Posted inblogging librarianship libraries library school
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Attitudes and Behaviors
16. How many blogs are you subscribed to (or if you don't subscribe, how many do you read regularly)? Less than 15.... 21 (12.8%) 16 to 40.... 36 (22%) 41…
Posted inblogging librarianship libraries library school
Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Blog Demographics
Here are the questions relating to people's blog(s) and their blogging history: 11. How long have you had your current blog? Less than 4 months.... 20 (12.3%) 4 to 8…
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Survey of the Biblioblogosphere: Demographics
Since there were 19 questions in the survey, one essay question, and many questions that allowed "write-in's", I figured I'd break the results up into a few blog posts. Here…
Working on the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere
I just closed the Survey of the Biblioblogosphere and am going to work this week on making sense of the results. I'll try to publish the results as soon as…
